Historical Events
1935 – Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
1959 – AFL announced with 8 teams
1972 – Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested in the Republic of Ireland
1976 – New AL franchises in Seattle and Toronto fill up their rosters
2012 – Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
2018 – BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists
Famous Birthdays
1615 – Ibrahim I, 18th Ottoman Sultan (1640-48), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
1742 – Richard Cosway, English portrait painter, born in Tiverton, England (d. 1821)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer (“Happy Trails”; Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)
1929 – Lennart Johansson, Swedish soccer administrator (President Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) 1990–2007), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2019)
1957 – David Moyse, Australian rock vocalist (Air Supply – “All Out Of Love”), born in Adelaide, Australia
1983 – Alexa Chung, English TV presenter, model and designer, born in Privett, England
Famous Deaths
1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1943 – Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies at 62
1969 – Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1989 – Barry Sadler, American singer (“Ballad Of The Green Berets”), dies from complications of being shot 14 months earlier at 49
2020 – Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Madness of King George, Butterflies), dies at 93
2020 – Len Barry [Leonard Borisoff], American singer, songwriter and producer (The Dovells – “Bristol Stomp”; solo – “1-2-3”), dies of bone marrow cancer at 78